Google: Top Display Ad Exec Leaving The Company

By Eric Savitz

David Rosenblatt, Google’s president of global display advertising, will leave the company on May 15, the New York Times reports. Rosenblatt previously had been CEO of DoubleClick, which the company acquired in 2008.

The Times notes that Rosenblatt did not indicate what he will do next, but that those close to him say he would like to run his own company or division again.

Rosenblatt’s exit follows the departure of several other key Google sales execs, including Tim Armstrong, who had been president of the Americas, and is now CEO of Time Warner‘s (TWX)AOL unit, which will soon be spun-off as a separate public company, and Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, who gave up the post of president of Asia-Pacific and Latin America to become a CEO-in-residence at Accel Partners. Top sales exec Omid Kordestaniearlier this month gave up his post to become senior adviser to Eric Schmidt, Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

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